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Show I THE (ATHOIK WORLD, j -- Japan has 53,872Catholics, A new Catholic church will soon be built at Grafton, N. D. " s The French Catholics of Crookston are contemplating the erection of a new church. It is rumored the Catholic clergy of Milwaukee are laying plans for a summer sum-mer school there. The Rev. T. Casey of Frederickton has been , appointed by the Holy See coadjutor bishop of New Brunswick. The scolastic year of 1900 will witness wit-ness the opening of Trinity college for the higher education of Catholic young ladies. After 900 years of oblivion a statue to St. Bernard is now to be erected on the Great St. Bernard .niountain. ' Catholicity: Cathol-icity: is setting up 'many -monuments these latter days. The. learned Catholic historian, Dr. Pastor, professor of history at . the University of Innsbruck, has been appointed ap-pointed by the Emperor of Austria a Councilor of the Imperial Court. It looks as though the Western Summer Sum-mer School will be held in JDetroit next year.-Bishop Messniftf, the head of the school, and Bishop Foley, the head of I the Detroit diocese,- both favor that place. - .-,.'-: Father W. A. McDermott, known in letters as Walter Lecky, is on the road to recovery. His physicians, however, say that he must not again devote himself him-self to literary work. , Archbishop Hennessey, who preached at the. dedication of St. Joseph's Cathedral Ca-thedral in this city, will celebrate the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood next year. ' The Rev. Father Vattmann, the veteran vet-eran army chaplain, has recently returned re-turned from an extended trip to Europe. Eu-rope. He spent quite a long time in Rome and had an audience with the Holy Father. When St. Louis gave a house to General Gen-eral Sherman it was known to every contributor that Mrs. Sherman was a Catholic. What was no offense in the hero of the march through Georgia was a. crime in the hero of Manila bay. In the Klondike regions there are four Catholic Churches one each at Dawson, Selkirk, Hunker Creek and Last Chance Creek. Four priests are now located in Dawson City, Rev. Fathers Lefebre, Desmarias, Corbell and Gendron, all Oblates. -t- ' . . Sister Theodora, superioress- of the convent of .Notre Dame, connected with the Mission Church, Roxbury, Mass., has: been presented with a piano, the gift of Father William H. I. Reaney, chaplain of the Olympia. The piano was given -td the chaplain while he was in the Philippines by "the Archbishop Arch-bishop of the Catholic diocese of Manila. Man-ila. - 'V.- A remarkable funeral service took place .at St. Simon's Church, .Washington, .Wash-ington, Ind., recently. The services were held over the remains of William Stanton of Washington. The Mass was sung by five priests, all brothers, they being nephews of the deceased. They are the Revs. John F. Hickey of Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, Charles A. Hickey of Dayton, O.; George F. Hickey of Milford, O.; William D. Hickey of Dayton, O.; and E. P. Hickey( of jPa, O. . ... The Hartford Courant thinks that Archbishop Chappelle does not go to Manila on a mission foredoomed to failure. It says: "It is not at all impossible im-possible that the mission of Archbishop Archbish-op Chappelle to the Philippines as per. sonal representative and delegate of the Pope, may accomplish more in the way of tranquilizing the natives. and reconciling them to the new order of things than the winning pf many paddy-field skirmishes, in spite of his French name and blood, yet people who I knew the Archbishop of New Orleans when he was as yet only Father Chappelle Chap-pelle of St. Matthew's, Washington, say that there's no discount on his Americanism. The fact that Pope Leo , NIII has sent a gift to the wife of the French republic has caused any amount of gossip. T'he incident is, however, without grave significance. This good lady, who is in no way responsible for matters political in France, has been known to His Holiness since the days when he was Nuncio Apostolic . in Brussels, and 'has always been a 'zealous 'zeal-ous Catholic, and the gift of His Holiness Holi-ness had no political significance whatever. |